About the Author

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Tristan Anne Borer (BA, University of Texas at San Antonio; PhD, University of Notre Dame) is Professor of Government and International Relations at Connecticut College in New London, CT. She is the author of Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980-1994 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998), the editor of Telling the Truths: Truth-Telling and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Societies (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), and the co-author (with John Darby and Siobhan McEvoy-Levy) of Peacebuilding After Peace Accords: The Challenges of Violence, Truth and Youth (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). She has also published several articles in the field of human rights in journals including Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Human Rights, Violence Against Women, African Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Church and State. Her research has been funded by the Joan Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the United States Institute of Peace.